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> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:51:46 +1300
> From: Steven Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Mods and tossers
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:28:22 EST
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: Mods and tossers
> > >
> > > In a message dated 2/21/00 6:50:52 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > >
> > > << But to the lads who sent me mail taking the piss,I don't care
> > > because I'm proud of who I am.
> > > I've been a mod for over 15years,will continue and will always be
> > > a mod.Have some respect. >>
> > >
> > > Maybe you should have listened to your own words and had a little respect for
> > > the Americans on this list.
> > >
> > > Chris C. (A 32 year old American mod, whose been into it since 15 also, not
> > > that it really matters.)
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, well James has been a mod longer than ANY of you sad monkeys....and
> > look at all the respect he gets! Did I ever tell you about the height of the
> > mod movement? Well it was the '69 Hyde Park Stones concert and....
> >
> > Dan
>
> What a bunch of 'My Dad's a policeman'.
>
> The more you talk about 'Mod' the less mod you are. The more you are
> quietly cool, stylish and damn funky, the better. There was a guy down
> this way (New Zealand) who went by the name 'Dave the Mod'. Just cause
> he knew how to tune a Vespa. What a Plonker. Less talk, more action. But
> with no fuss, eh?
>
> Modernists should be confident, stylish, and knowledgable. If that means
> trading in your parka, your Fred Perry, your Ben Sherman, three button
> suit and hush puppies and opting for a look no-one's seen before, more
> power to you. If you decide you're into electronic music, but you still
> know where those samples came from, great.
>
> I'm 34 and my first experience with scooters and the trappings of a mod
> sub-culture was when I was 16. I've played in soul bands and left that
> behind in favour of original guitar pop. It's hot down this way in
> Pacific paradise summertime and I wear rayon shirts and Italian slides.
> And I still love soul, funk and jazz though I'm just as likely to listen
> to Dimitri or Kid Loco or You Am I. I don't have a scooter but my
> flatmates all do....and they're not in the slight bit interested in mod
> or what it means.
> I guess what I mean is .....lighten up fer fecks sake!
>
> Into the future eh lads and ladesses?
>
> -little stevie
I think you missed the heavy sarcasm. I thought everyone on this list was aware of
THE James.
But interesting how "it doesn't matter" and yet you still threw down your
"credentials" to prove
your super-modness.
Damn funky Dan
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